O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-8-112 (2019)

Freedom from duty to perform services for facility; right to rise and retire at times of resident’s choice; tobacco and alcoholic beverages; freedom to enter and leave facility

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) Each resident shall be free from a duty to perform services for the facility.

(b) Each resident shall be permitted to rise and retire at times of his choice, if the resident does not interfere with the rights of others.

(c) Unless contradictory to written admission policies of which the resident, guardian, or representative is informed prior to admission, each resident shall be permitted to use tobacco and to consume alcoholic beverages, subject to the facility’s policies and safety rules and applicable state law, if the resident does not interfere with the rights of others.

(d) Each resident shall be free to enter and leave the facility as the resident chooses.

History

Code 1933, § 88-1908B, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 149, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 40A Am. Jur. 2d, Hospitals and Asylums, § 15.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1996–1996 · leading case: Coultas v. Dunbar, 467 S.E.2d 373 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996).

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Coultas v. Dunbar, 467 S.E.2d 373 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “The direct evidence is that defendants acted at all times in their official capacities and in good faith to enforce OCGA § 31-8-112 (c), which provides: “Unless contradictory to written admission policies of which the resident.”

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